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ActorBirth Name :
Colin Andrew FirthBirth Date :
September 10, 1960Birth Place :
Grayshott, Hampshire, England, U.K.Spouse :
Livia Giuggioli (since 21-Jun-97)Claim to fame :
As Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy in TV series "Pride and Prejudice" (1995)
Nominees Picked Up for the 2007 British Independent Film Awards
October 24, 2007 04:10:41Once again celebrating the achievement in independently funded British movies, organizers of the British Independent Film Awards have smoothly rolled down the list of eligible titles and names to vie for the honors in the event's tenth anniversary.
Leading the pack is biographical feature "Control" as it remarkably took ten nods in total, most notably that of Best British Independent Film. To win the prize, pic, however, faces tough competition from the likes of "And When Did You Last See Your Father?", "Notes on a Scandal", "Hallam Foe", and "Eastern Promises."
Trio Spelling Out "Mamma Mia!"
April 17, 2007 03:04:48
More good talents are coming for "Mamma Mia!." The Hollywood Reporter has brought in news informing that Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard, and Christine Baranski have all been added into the cast of the flick, which has already had Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, and Amanda Seyfried in.
A joint production of Littlestar and Playtone, the musical romantic comedy is the adaptation of the popular ABBA musical which focuses on a bride-to-be (Seyfried) raised by a single mother (Streep) who locates three men who might be her father and invites them to her wedding. Firth and Skarsgard are said to portray two of the three possible fathers while Baranski plays a plastic surgery-loving party girl in her forties who is bossy and boozy.
Four Registered As "St. Trinian's" Students
March 09, 2007 03:03:33
Boarding on the same vehicle, Emily Watson, Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, and Russell Brand are all poised to share scenes together in "St. Trinian's", a new big screen version of the classic British comedy franchise that spawned several popular movies in the 1950s and 1960s.
Produced under Ealing Studios banner, the project, which is originally inspired by Ronald Searle's books and cartoons, takes focus on the madcap adventures of a group of unruly girls who attend the eponymous boarding school. Watson will appear as a teacher who is the movie's central character while Everett will play double cross-dressing role of the headmistress and her unscrupulous brother and Brand the local small-time crook named Flash Harry, who helps the girls get into scrapes.
Six Introduced to "The Accidental Husband"
November 13, 2006 01:11:43
More are on board to work together in "The Accidental Husband" after the coming of "Kill Bill" star Uma Thurman to the project's cast. Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Colin Firth, Sam Shepard, Isabella Rossellini, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lindsay Sloane, and Justina Machado have all been confirmed to join the beauty in the lineup.
A joint production of Yari Film Group, Team Todd, and Blumhouse Productions, pic follows a local talk radio host named Emma Lloyd, played by Thurman, as she becomes the target of a man (Morgan) whose girlfriend has decided to dump him after heeding her advice.
Colin Firth Sets Sail for "Genova"
November 03, 2006 12:11:45
Being attached to many big screen projects apparently does not prevent Colin Firth to take one more acting stint into his resume. Variety revealed that the British actor has just signed on to star in a contemporary horror feature entitled "Genova."
Already tapped Michael Winterbottom to direct, the project will see Firth as a recently widowed man who travels to Italy with his teenage daughters to make a fresh start in his life yet later finds out that he can't escape the ghosts of his past. No words yet on other cast members and the writer, but filming is expected to begin by next spring.
Stars Coming Down to "Then She Found Me"
September 12, 2006 04:09:47
Lining up to bring more highlights to the movie, Colin Firth, Matthew Broderick, and Bette Midler have given nods to join the cast of "Then She Found Me", a directorial film debut of "Mad About You" star Helen Hunt.
Firth will play a man whom Hunt's character meets through one of her students while Broderick is billed as her husband and Middler as her birth mother. The movie itself is a drama based on Elinor Lipman's novel of the same title and is being financed by The Blue Rider fund and the bank ICB. The script initially was adapted by Alice Arlen, but later was re-written by Hunt and Vic Levin with Hunt making the final polish. Production of the picture is currently taking place in Brooklyn.
Heroic Nanny McPhee
October 10, 2005 01:10:24Becoming a nanny isn't easy. It's a hard job to do. Though, Emma Thompson loves her job and tries as hard as she can to be the best for the nine naughty, motherless children, she's taking care.
See how Thompson does her duty as their nanny in the forthcoming "Nanny McPhee" which follows those children who must rely on their magical, but darned ugly, nanny to save them from their wicked great aunt who has taken them from their father. Besides taking the title role, Thompson also is responsible for the film screenwriting.
